Eurosport

Eurosport has agreed a new distribution deal with Spanish telecommunications company Telefónica to include the pan-regional sports broadcaster’s live sport multi-feed service, Eurosport 360HD.

Géraldine Filiol has been appointed as the new deputy managing director for international communications, marketing and external relations at pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Uefa enjoyed differing levels of success in the sales of its club competition rights in France and Southeast Asia last month. The outcome points to a cooling of the French market but suggests there is still margin for substantial growth in several major Asian territories.

The IMG agency believes that the recent deals it secured with 30 broadcasters for the newly-launched FIA World Rallycross Championship are a strong indication that the agency’s long-term investment in the sport will pay off.

Eurosport France, the French arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has agreed a three-year contract extension to be the exclusive broadcaster of the MotoGP motorcycling series in the French territory until the end of the 2017 season.

The European Commission has cleared a deal for US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications to acquire a controlling stake in pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport.

Glasgow Commonwealth Games on track to hit commercial revenue targets

Last Friday’s French football league rights auction put a large hole in the theory that Al Jazeera-owned pay-television broadcaster beIN Sports is an unstoppable force bent on dominating the local market

SRO Motorsports, promoter of the GT Series motor-racing organisation, has agreed a host of new broadcast deals ahead of the start of the 2014 season.

British Eurosport, the UK arm of pan-regional broadcaster Eurosport, has acquired exclusive rights to WBA, IBF, WBO and IBO boxing champion Wladimir Klitschko’s world heavyweight title defence against Alex Leapai.

Five media companies have submitted proposals to acquire packages of domestic rights in the tender launched by Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, for the country’s top-tier Ligue 1 and second-tier Ligue 2, according to French newspaper l’Equipe.

US media and entertainment company Discovery Communications has held talks with potential partners over possible joint bids for premium sports rights, according to chief executive David Zaslav.

Polish pay-television broadcaster NC Plus has ruled out the possibility of sublicensing rights for the 2014-15 season of the Ekstraklasa, the top division of football in Poland, according to the Wirtualnemedia.pl news website.

The Ligue de Football Professionnel (LFP), the French football league, has said that pay-television broadcaster Canal Plus is the only candidate for the next cycle of media rights for the top-tier Ligue 1 to have requested a postponement of the sales process.

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Pan-regional sports broadcaster Eurosport has signed three-time Tour de France winner and double world champion Greg LeMond as a global cycling ambassador.